A Miscellany of Poems consisting of Original Poems, Translations, Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect, Familiar Epistles, Fables, Songs, and Epigrams, by the late Reverend Josiah Relph ... With a Preface and a Glossary |
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I
Hark! that solemn sound is one!All things rest but I alone;
Come thou care-composing God,
Touch my temples with thy rod.
II
Weary Zephyrs are at ease,Nought disturbs the slumb'ring trees;
And the noisy prattling stream
Murmurs faint as in a dream.
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III
Say thou peaceful Pow'r divine,Say what monstrous crime is mine?
I thy call ne'er disobey,
Ne'er oppose thy sov'reign sway.
IV
Leave the Miser brooding o'erMidnight heaps of mouldy store;
Leave the happy lover blest
On his Cælia's panting breast.
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Here's the God.—I feel him lyeHeavy fetters on each eye:
Thro' each vein soft slumbers creep:
Babes thus sing themselves asleep.
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